Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that moment it became illegal to pay some 11,000,000 workers employed in interstate commerce less than 25? an hour. The statutory work week became 44 hours. It was not illegal to work a longer week; it-was simply more expensive for employers, who thereafter would have to pay 1½ the regular rate for overtime. Big Western Union and little Southern lumbermen sought to get in line by exemption or discharge of underpaid hands, or out of line by closure, because any employer found in violation will be in a peck of trouble. He may have...
...last moment, 100,000 Chinese troops were reported resolved to defend Canton and solidly entrenched. Actually 1,500 Japanese soldiers, the advance guard of the Japanese invading force of 60,000, almost raced into Canton last week, having advanced 125 miles in ten days flat, without having been obliged to fight a single major battle. The Japanese, who had been told they must make "heroic efforts to take Canton at any cost by November 3," Birthday Anniversary of the great Emperor Meiji, thus found themselves 13 days ahead of schedule...
...eight yard off-tackle slash at the crucial moment, together with the help from heaven that all good Deacons have a right to expect, won the all important Lowell game for Kirkland, 7-0, yesterday afternoon, thus brushing aside the Deacons' most formidable opponent for the House grid title. In the other Soldiers Field encounter, a favored Adams eleven was cut down by last place Leverett...
...funeral of Dr. John Abbott in the little midwest town of Westport, A Man to Remember shifts quickly to the office where Abbott's lawyer is examining his papers, then proceeds, by means of a long cutback, to tell the story of his life, ending at the moment when the picture begins. John Abbott (Edward Ellis), prototype of thousands of other country doctors in thousands of other Westports, was a humble, hard working general practitioner, too dour to be popular with his patients, too generous to make them pay their bills. Derived from Katharine Haviland Taylor's story...
...shortly after he had been subjected to a drop-kick which he admitted "lifted me right off my feet." While he attempted to calm his ruffled feelings, two exceedingly ominous looking gentlemen, attired in sweatshirts, their swarthy jowls covered with a wiry bristle, silently converged on him. For a moment the three stood watching the milling students and Storm Troopers with a jaundiced eye. Finally the one in the larger sweatshirt leaned over to the Councilman...